Self-Defense Deaths

If you guys were in a serious situation with an attacker, would you kill them?

I'd say yes, but only if absolutely necessary. If I could just injure them enough to get out if they had me deadlocked or something and run for help, I would do that. Killing them would be my last resort.

 

Only if it was my only means of escape. And even then, I would probably feel horrible about it afterwords. I would, like you said, try to find a non-lethal way of escaping, but if it came right down to it and the only way I could escape was taking the attacker's life before he/she took mine, then I'd do it.

 

No point in us saying anything else, I think this pretty much covers it.

 

Human emotions being as volatile as they are, the question for me has a few different degrees of yes. If it was my only escape? Yes. Did my attacker hurt or kill a friend or loved one (mentally/emotionally, physically, financially (theft on a large scale)) before coming after me?

I dont care if I've got him so locked down I could give him a noogie, I'll probably lose my temper and kill him anyway. My motto has always been an eye for an eye at the very least. But to make it so that they can never wrong you again, that's the best way in my opinion.

 

honestly, yes I would. I wouldn't like it, but if the guy was attacking me with enough force to kill me, I would hit back as well. Although, whenever I have to physcially hurt someone, I'm always gritting my teeth to hold myself together. And the more pain I would inflict, the more I grit my teeth. So if I was going to kill someone, I'd probably be biting hard enough to crush my own teeth.

This does go against what my faith says, but I'm not exactly perfect in my faith. Still, if it were possible, I would disable them, but if they seriously came at me with a gun or something, I wouldn't take that chance. The biggest problem for me with hurting anyone is just that feeling of breaking something, even a life. It just makes me feel like I killed a little of myself, which is what you do in a sense.

 

I would have to agree with only killing them if it was absolutely necessary. If there was the possibility for me to get away and get help without bringing harm to them then I would do that. However, if it were my only option,I probably would kill them. :<

I would feel slight guilt.....though if, like Willis said, they were to have done harm to my family or friend, I don't think much guilt would be there.

 

Hum... Is eat or be eaten. At the absolutely necessary would be the only way. First I would first try to avoid this, at any cost. I can't let them hurt me or someone I love. Still kill them is really when it is necessary. Trying to escape, disarm him, avoid get hurt.

I wouldn't kill someone without a reason. He was attacking me and if there aren't any other ways, unfortunately I would need to kill him.

 

You guys are good people.​

Anyway. It depends on what they were doing. If I had an opportunity to kill them, and I knew they were planning to kill me and there was no room for negotiation or being set free without extreme harm, then yeah. I would take that opportunity.

I would say I would simply injure and run, but no. My thought-process is to make sure they're not going to get right back up and start chasing me down with a gun or something. Plus I'm the type of person where even if someone like that ended up in jail, I would be so terrified they would escape prison, or get released early or something just to come after me. I wouldn't want to allow them the chance to hurt someone else, either.

But it does depend on what they had done and what their obvious intents were. For example, an 'attacker' could be someone who broke into my house in the dead of the night without intending to be caught, and who tells me to lay on the floor and not look while they steal my crap. I would probably not kill someone like that if I got the oppurtunity. However, someone who kidnaps me and takes me to some remote location with a weapon drawn and terrible intent, then yeah, provided the opportunity I would probably go for it and I doubt I'd feel any sort of guilty about it after.

I'M A SURVIVOR -- *shot* ​

 

No one can predict how he would act (or rather react) in an extreme situation. If I base my answer on the way I reacted in life or death situations in the past then I guess time would get really slow all of a sudden, and I would either stay frozen on the spot, thousands of thoughts rattling around in my head, my brain frantically trying to catch a coherent one, or I would merely react without thinking. I don' t support killing people, whatever they did, but my survival instincts and my reflexes don' t really care about my opinions.

 

Maybe

If their death was the only possibly way for me to live then I still wouldn't for the simple fact that I would rather be killed then kill myself. For what for me to live... And then I have to live with me killing someone over some selfish sh**. Yea like that'll happen

Yes I get it's MY LIFE on the line and I need to kill to survive well if we look back on histroy how well has that worked out for us? Don't worry I'll wait?

What we gained indpendence, got some respect, gained our natural human rights, but yet people had to die just to make that happen. They fought knowing they would die just to allow these things to happen. I can just be saying this since*Knock on wood.* I've never been in a predicament such as that one.

But that's just how I feel about that. What's the point in killing to live if you're killing yourself as you live, and death still won't be peaceful for you?

I honestly wouldn't do it at all. I would defend myself hell yea, but to kill someone that's crazy. Because you're taking another life away just so you can live. I find that a bit selfish, but human instinct shows if your in danger you will do anything to live on. Just when will we just kill that craving, and live what we should really live for no matter what the situation.

May sound stupid, but then again this is just my take on it. I have nothing against anyone who differs in thoughts again. Just wanted to share what I think.

 

This, basically. But if I am going to answer the question:

I don't think I would. I cannot think of any situation in which I could kill them, but not injure or otherwise incapacitate them. And while Patman does bring up the point of survival instincts, there's also that intrinsic (or, at least, I believe it to be so) value on human life that we have. I don't know what makes people snap and kill others, but I don't think it's an action that many of us could do without hesitation. Maybe it's naïve of me, but no, I don't think I would.

 

I carry my knife around for this exact reason. If I ever get attacked, I will try to kill the person. Sorry, my life is more important to me than theirs. I will not risk simply injuring the person leaving them the opportunity to kill me. I wouldn't trust the ability to simply knock the person out. I've put a lot of thought into this. If the day ever comes I won't hesitate.

 

If he or she breaks into my house I would try to get he or she to leave if they don't I would call the police and try to survive till they reach my house. It would actually depend on the situation like if that person has a knife and tries to stab me with it. It would end up like that scene in Catherine where Catherine gets a knife and falls on Katherine and stabs herself with the knife she has.

 

without a doubt in my mind, my policy is you mess with me, my family, the ones i care about, or my things and i have a reason to kill i will. it is simple in my book once someone does something that stupid to me they will die.

 

Avoid, rather than check. Check, rather than hurt. Hurt, rather than maim. Maim, rather than kill.
There is always a choice, we choose to hurt, we choose to kill. It is murder, plain, simple. It is not Self-Defence Deaths, but Self-Defence Murder.
The question should be, can you bear the price of taking away a person's life for the rest of yours?

A knife is a weapon. It is not like a shield, it does not defend, it attacks. You carry it, that means you intend to use it. The knife in a high percentage of cases is more likely to be used on you, then on the other, unless you have extensive training or experience. It is a foolish idea to simply think that if you have the weapon you will win is from an experienced mind.

 

This is dificult to answer with a simple yes or no because of the varying degrees of severity of the word "attacker". I don't think I would kill someone in a bar brawl for example. Then again, I know that my sense of self-preservation is fairly high, so I might as well smash his head into a table and make a run for it or something.
If someone were to attack me with deadly force, however, I wouldn't hesitate to do the same. Not out of malice or anything, I just wouldn't be able to put my mind at ease until that person was dead and therefore incapable of chasing me and killing me first.

 

If someone broke into my house with a gun and was trying to shoot me I would kill them, not even think about it. You say"I would try to escape without killing them to preserve a life", your brain just wouldn't have time to thikn that deep. When it comes to a situation like this you are up against the strongest force in the world, the will to survive. Seriously though, you turn animal when your life is on the line. Also, this guy has tried to kill me, he deserves to die, if killing him risked my chance of survival than no, I would get the hell outa there. Whatever makes me live longer I will embrace with open arms.